A Day in Wine Country with (Almost) no Wine

Saturday Hawk and I took a road trip up to Napa wine country. The impetus for the trip was getting my 2nd Covid-19 vaccine shot in Napa. We planned a bunch of other activities around it to make a day out of it. ...But mostly low-key, because I wasn't sure if I'd start experiencing side-effects of the shot or how soon they might come. It turns out I held up fairly well, though, so we made a pretty full day out of it.

Let's Go Shopping!

( Vaccination is important, so are discounts! )

Shot #2

( Wow, that was fast— NOT! )

Let's "Do" Lunch

( When in Yuppie-ville, do as the Yuppies do )

Time to Hike!

( There's always time for waterfalls )

Back Through Napa... to More Shopping!

( I had to buy wine somewhere! )

MOAR Shopping, and Dinner

Oh, but we weren't done with shopping. Further along the route home we stopped near Walnut Creek. For— you guessed it— a HomeGoods and a TJ Maxx store. After brief stops at those it was after 6pm, so we decided to get dinner on the road. We found a nice little Mexican joint with decent outdoor seating and ate there.

I was still feeling achy, so Hawk had taken over the driving after the Costco stop. After dinner we drove straight home the last ~60 miles. I was glad to relax. It was after 8pm by the time we got in. I relaxed for a while, took a shower, and went to bed shortly after 10.

Mild Symptoms from Shot #2

Since getting my second Covid-19 shot yesterday I've experienced only mild side effects. Yesterday I felt achier than seemed warranted given the modest physical exercise I did. Overnight I had a sore throat and a stuffy nose... though I believe these are more attributable to the seasonal allergies I've had the past 2 weeks than to the vaccine. Throughout the day I've continued to have dull body aches. I'm now at T+32 hours. Overall this seems even milder than the side effects I had after my first shot— and definitely milder than Hawk's second-shot symptoms. ...Assuming that my allergy- and cold-like symptoms are, indeed, from allergies and/or a light cold.

Two more weeks now. Two more weeks to build maximum immunity. Then I can shift up to the next stage of returning to normalcy. All I'll have to worry about when will be all the Covidiots who aren't getting shots because they think the pandemic is a hoax and the vaccine is deadly sham.